Sécheron SA

Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer

Sécheron SA  •  Genève, CH (Onsite)  •  5 months ago
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Job Description

Sécheron Hasler Group continues the Swiss tradition of over 140 years in the field of railway technology. We are a leading global supplier of electrical and electronic safety components and solutions and traction power systems for the railway industry and also provide solutions for renewable energy, DC grid, and other industrial systems. The name Sécheron Hasler Group is a worldwide synonym for Swiss Quality and represents a leading reference for state-of-the-art products supplied to the market.

With more than 1 200 employees worldwide, we are wherever our customers are around the globe, supplying products approved in our customers’ countries or markets and deliver supply chain and customer services locally.

For our office in Geneva, we are currently looking for a Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer.

Main tasks:

  • Design for manufacturing, cost-efficient and robust solutions.
  • Convert advanced concepts into practical design.
  • Challenges concepts and drawings produced by others.
  • Be a reference and coach for robust design.
  • Support actual products within a multi-department team.
  • Able to master actual product requiring complex multi-physical understandings.
  • Hands-on with experimental mounting and testing.

Requirements

  • Master/PhD of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Microtechnics or Mechatronics/similar.
  • Tolerance management, Robust Design, Design-to-Cost, Finite Element Analysis (Solidworks, Comsol, Ansys).
  • Development of complex systems involving different technologies (in particular electrical, mechanical, magnetic).
  • Implementation of robust design into industrial products.
  • Key player in inventing advanced concepts and solving critical issues.
  • Broad knowledge of machining capabilities and material (plastics/thermoset).
  • French & English (must), German (wish).
  • Geometrical Product Specifications (ISO Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing), Tolerance Management (with application in SolidWorks).
  • Functional Analysis, FMEA.
  • Electrical engineering fundamentals/Power electronics.

Benefits

We have flat hierarchies and direct communication between departments and levels of management is encouraged. This enables us to make decisions quickly.

We give our employees total responsibility for their job tasks. All employees are encouraged to take initiatives and contribute to the company’s operational excellence and have ample opportunities to achieve their personal and career growth objectives.

Sécheron SA

About Sécheron SA

Sécheron SA is focused on railway industry, and industrial segments manufacturing high power electric equipment. We design, manufacture, test and deliver products and solutions covering the following scope

Electrical Safety Solutions

Sécheron SA offers an extensive range of products, solutions and services dedicated to the switching and protection of high voltage traction and auxiliary equipment installed on railway and mass transit vehicles. Our ranges of DC and AC circuit breakers, contactors and disconnecting switches, as well as master controllers and wheel flange lubricators, are used on locomotives, conventional and high-speed trains, EMU's, metros, light rail vehicles, tramways and trolley buses.

Traction Power Systems

Sécheron SA offers a complete range of components, solutions, systems and services for DC Traction Substations powering and protecting mass transit and railway networks. With more than 60 years experience in this activity, Sécheron has developed a unique expertise making our equipment to be used in most of the major cities worldwide operating metros and light rails networks, as well as in countries equipped with DC railway lines. Starting from the delivery of individual components such as DC circuit-breakers, disconnect switches or protection and control devices, Sécheron supplies up to the complete DC substation, including transformer-rectifier groups, DC switchgear, regenerative inverter/energy storage systems and other panels. Supported by a strong and expertise project management and engineering team, we also offer a complete range of services to guarantee the quality and performances of the project and equipment.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Satigny - Geneva, CH
Year Founded
Unknown
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